Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-04-14
NEW YORK FASHIONS.

Ribbon Garnitures, Irish PopIins and Late
Promenade Costume Combinations. +.
In the matter of ribbon garnitures,
they were never worn in greater pro-
fusion. Many of these. and naturally
the most expensive, are hand-embroid
cred OF painted in Paris by deft and
skilled fingers. Other pattern ribbons
are embossed or printed. some of the
designs in the latter being very eccen-
trio and some exactly matching the
figures on satins foulards, fancy India
muslins. and Oriental silk tissues.
Plain and reversible picot and fancy OF
toman ribbons in two colors, with lace
finished edge, are lavishly used on tea
dresses, trimming the entire fronts of
matinees in ''thatch-work, with gar
niture for bodice and sleeves to cor
respond. Loops of ribbon are en-
ployed to edge the new Hungarian
bodices of plain velvet. and row upon
row of narrow loops are frequently
as a finish Similar loops are then
set down the front of the corsage,
mingling with the lace garniture, the
cascades of ribbon and lace decreasing
in width as they reach the belt. This
gives an effective finish to a gown,
however simple its character, and is
generally becoming. Velvet, satin or
MORE ribbon, with picot edges, are
also laid in fiat rows over the plain
outlines and borderings of gowns made
of lightweight summer woods, in alba
tross, vailing, camel's hair and the
like.
Although the price of genuine
Irish poplin may seem very high at
the time of its purchase, it must be
outlasts two silk gowns, and as this
material, when made up, requires lit
tie if any trimming, it is on that &C
count undoubtedly economical. The
garnitures required for many fabrics
are often more expensive than the ma
terials itself. Popiin of the modern
weave is so soft, flexible, and rich look
ing, falling in such grateful folds in its
draping, that it needs no extraneous
additions. Its charm lies in itself, and
when unadorned it is adorned the
most. Many women prefer the very
finely-ribbed qualities, thinking that
they wear better than the heavier
cords. For dinner gowns or wedding
toilets some of the pale half-tints are
exquisite, the sheen on their surface
being very beautiful by artificial light.
Aberdeen is a new delicate blue, the
perfection of wear for blonde. There
are also lovely colors in nuns gray
heliotrope, pale terra Gotta, ecru,
cream and tea rose, all alike delightful
to the eye, but not alike as regards
their general becomingness. 1t might
be suggested that the buyer should
place the color she would prefer be-
meath her chin, as children do the but.
tercups, to note the effect upon her
complexion.
Combinations still predominant
largely for promenade costumes, and
the following is specimen gown which
furnishes the theme for numerous vari-
ations. A skirt of heliotrope cloth not
hemmed at the lower edges, but turned
to form sort Of roll trifie loose, be-
meath which, and extending beyond it
IOI dDOub Two lTCucS, Is d udFTOW plcdt-
ing of the cloth. kits above this on
each side of the skirt graduate to deep
Vandyke, at the extreme point of which
are fastened carless easy bows of lilac
and heliotrope picot velvetribbon. The
overdress of soft sheer wool, in blocks
of several violet shades, on a ground
of pale dove gray, is simply raised in
washerwoman style on the sides,
uncovering the front of the skirt, but
hanging to almost an equal length
with the skirt in the back. The jacket
corsage is of the same fabric as the
overskirt, opening over vest of the
violet cloth on an appliqued fabric of
the same material. This tailor-made
basque is short, neat and jaunty in
effect. Nothing much simpler than
this toilet could be devised, and GER
tainlY nothing more essentially
Partisan and tasteful to it's minutest de-
tails. Almost any modiste can concoct
a complicated toilet. but few, and those
only the most skillful, are capable of
completing gown that should be at
once simple, elegant and irreproach-
able.-N Y Post.